People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Good for Tillman. [ARTICLE]

Good for Tillman.

In a recant interview Senator Ben Tillman told the reporter: “Except In rare cases no man can make a million honestly.” At another stage in thte Interview he said: “It is not the millionaires themselves that I complain about, but the system tfiat produces them.” “What are you going to do in the senate?” was asked. “Watch rogues and prevent steals— If I can,” was the reply. “Yes, but aren’t you going to introduce measures to correct this awful system that creates millionaires and saps the life of the land?” “Just give me the prospect of getting any measure through and then I’ll tell you—but I’m not building air castles.” Many of the Democratic papers call Senator Tillman a Populist, but it seems he calls himself a Democrat still. In the senate he recently said: “Everybody knows my position. We are still sticking to the party In South Carolina and are going to do so as long as there Is hope in it for a change in the condition of affairs. We are going to Chicago with a silver delegation. If the convention decides that It will give the people of the country no relief and sits down on silver, we are going to walk out.” Which goes to show that Ben Tillman is not a compromise-harmony-par-lty-vote-’er-skraight Democrat—not by a thousand miles.—Nevada Directo*